wolfdog

A wolfdog is a canine produced by the mating of a domestic dog (Canis familiaris) with a gray wolf (Canis lupus), an eastern wolf (Canis lycaon), a red wolf (Canis rufus), or an Ethiopian wolf (Canis simensis) to produce a hybrid.

==Admixture== thumb|Hybrids in eastern Poland in the Wildlife Park Kadzidłowo. To the left: Parents: female wolf and male [[Gończy Polski; right: parents: female wolf and male West Siberian Laika.]] Admixture between domestic dogs and other subspecies of gray wolves are the most common wolfdogs since dogs and gray wolves are considered the same species, are genetically very close and have shared vast portions of their ranges for millennia. Such admixture in the wild have been detected in many populations scattered throughout Europe and North America, usually occurring in areas where wolf populations have declined from human impacts and persecutions.